Science World Report Good Oral Hygiene May Help Prevent Risk of Oral HPVScience World ReportStatistics show that the oral HPV nfection is often associated with 40 to 80 percent of mouth cancers. According to researchers at the School of Public…

Taking poor care of your teeth could increase risk for oral HPVNews 10NBCResearchers at the University of Texas Health Sciences Center looked at health survey responses from 3,000. They found those who said they had poor oral health, like inflamed…

natmonitor.com Brushing and flossing could lower risk of HPV infectionnatmonitor.comEarlier this year, the Guardian reported on a Michael Douglas interview in which the Oscar-winning actor stated that his throat cancer had been the result of a sexually transmitted disease called…

Brushing and flossing teeth cuts HPV risk, study findsBoston.com (blog)Oncologists have expressed alarm over a rise in HPV-related throat cancers, which now account for 70 percent of these cancers; excessive drinking and smoking used to be the most common causes.…

How Brushing Your Teeth Lowers Your Risk of CancerTIMEFollow @TIMEHealthland. HPV-caused throat cancer made headlines in June when the Guardian reported that actor Michael Douglas contracted throat cancer not through tobacco and alcohol, but from human papillomavirus (HPV). Douglas later…

NPR (blog) Brushing And Flossing Could Cut Risk Of Oral HPV InfectionNPR (blog)To find out, Thanh Cong Bui and his colleagues looked at data from a national health survey conducted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. That survey…

Analysis links poor oral hygiene with cancer-causing HPV risk.Examiner.comPoor oral hygiene may be an independent factor associated with an increased risk for oral human papillomavirus (HPV) infection, concluded the authors of a study (pdf) published August 21 online in Cancer…